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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

US Report Lists Religious-Freedom Troubles Worldwide

An annual report on religious freedom throughout the world, released
by the US State Department, "sends a signal to the worst offenders that
the world is watching,” according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
But a former State Department official charges that the Obama
administration has done little to promote religious freedom.

Thomas Farr, the director of Georgetown’s Religious Freedom project and a
former director of the State Department office, said that while the
report lists various “dialogues” with representatives of other
governments, “there is very little evidence of a unified US strategy to
advance religious freedom.” The State Department report lists 8
“countries of particular concern” on the issue of religious freedom:
Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and
Uzbekistan. (The same 8 countries composed the same list for last year’s
report.) The report notes that the “Arab Spring” protests raised
expectations of greater freedom in some countries, notably in Egypt, but
subsequent developments have shown that religious minorities still face
grave dangers.

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